The Capacity Your Team’s Performance Depends On
Most solutions address the person or the system.
We do both by redesigning how the work flows, and supporting the people carrying it.
For Workplaces
We partner with high-growth companies to address three forces that are colliding at once.
Hybrid Fragmentation: Teams are harder to align, harder to connect, and the informal moments that used to build trust are gone.
AI Transformation: Every org is on the change curve. Most are earlier than they think. Our research found that unclear AI expectations are the second-strongest burnout predictor. A risk factor that impacts long-term capacity.
Always-On Disconnection: The exhaustion of overload leads people to deprioritize exactly what would restore them: rest, connection, recovery.
Featured In
Our research with Bentley University’s Center for Health and Business (n=544, April 2026) established that burnout is the strongest predictor of innovation capacity decline, and that the workplace conditions driving it are identifiable and directly addressable through targeted operational and team interventions.
• 86% of working professionals report moderate to high burnout.
• Burnout emerged as the strongest predictor of diminished innovation capacity.
• 36% of our sample were "Overextended" with high visible output, low sustainable capacity, and highest levels of burnout.
• Unclear expectations about AI in one's role is the second-strongest burnout predictor and risk for lower innovation capacity.
Our Research
Most research describes the problem. Ours was designed to diagnose it.
Today’s managers aren’t overloaded in silos. They are operating inside systems that fragment attention, blur priorities, and keep teams stuck in reaction mode.
Expectations are shifting faster than teams can absorb.
Workflows are shaped by interruption, urgency, and constant context switching.
There’s more emotional labor and people complexity with less space to recover or think.
Employees are facing increased pressure to perform, often with fewer resources, with increasing uncertainty and lack of clarity.
Cognitive bandwidth is shrinking under AI acceleration and digital noise, resulting in decision fatigue and avoiding complex, strategic thinking.
These are all capacity problems.
When employees are depleted, leadership becomes more reactive, execution gets noisier, and stress moves through teams faster than most organizations can see. We address this at the root.
Not sure where your team stands?
The Capacity Diagnostic is a free assessment that maps where the friction is, before it shows up in your performance data.
Four dimensions. One clear picture of where capacity is holding and where it's leaking.
Whether your organizational environment is generating burnout risk
Whether your operating structure supports focused execution or fragments it
Whether your leadership layer has bandwidth to lead or is just keeping up
Whether your culture makes it safe to surface problems early (or not)
It takes 3-5 minutes. Results are instant. And it's free.
Meet the Founder
Hi I’m Alison, and I founded unBurnt to create a solution I wish existed when I was burning out.
I’m a former Chief of Staff & VP of Strategy + Analytics at a $1B global company. I spent nearly 20 years in corporate roles, across finance (Morgan Stanley), eCommerce (Wayfair pre-IPO), and HRTech (Workhuman). I loved working, and when I become a mom, I was determined to keep all the plates spinning at work and at home. I did for a while, and thought I had it all figured out.
Then after a health scare and surgery, I had time to look clearly at something I'd been too busy to name: almost every employee wellbeing solution was aimed at individuals. Apps, coaching, resilience training, EAPS. All of it placed the burden of fixing a systems-problem on the people being broken by the system.
Nobody was touching the conditions. That's what unBurnt exists to fix.
While running unBurnt, I’m also an Executive in Residence, Center of Health and Business, Bentley University researching the link between modern workplace conditions and burnout, capacity, innovation and empathy and implementing solutions at mid market companies to address the root causes of operating risks. I co-authored the paper, When Burnout Looks Like Productivity: The New Risk to Innovation Capacity(2026) unpacking the hidden signs of burnout and it’s impact on innovation.
Alison Campbell | Founder, unBurnt ® | Connect on LinkedIn
What people are saying
About our Programming
As the founder of a wellness community, I’m always looking for speakers who can deliver meaningful, actionable value and Alison Campbell exceeded every expectation during our recent virtual session. Her presentation was exceptional. Both the content and delivery were clear, engaging, and thoughtfully structured in a way that kept our entire group connected throughout. Alison has a gift for taking complex wellbeing concepts and breaking them down into relatable, easy-to-understand ideas.
What impressed me most was how practical and easy-to-integrate her micro-habits were. These weren’t overwhelming lifestyle overhauls, they were small, manageable shifts that anyone can immediately start weaving into their day. If you're looking for a speaker who brings insight, authenticity, and real-world tools to support wellbeing, I highly recommend Alison. She is a true partner in helping people thrive.
- Rachel Barksi | Founder, The WELL Community
About the Impact of our Research
“I read it, it’s really important, and I actually made two changes at Workbar since reading it. For our sales cycle we don’t take the foot off the gas. Every month it restarts. After reading this, I thought, we should everyone a break on the first of the month to reset, and not jump right back into it. To have some sort of break they can look forward to and from a certainty perspective, they know it’s coming. So they can push really hard at the end of the month, and know that on the first of the month, they won’t have to focus on sales.
- Sarah Travers | CEO, Workbar
The Invisible Costs of Burnout
Decision delays, rework, and turnover are all expensive hallmarks. They build when leadership capacity is stretched and employees stop naming the real issues.
But most companies don’t see the cost of burnout in real time, instead:
Strategic priorities stall
Priorities blur and expectations become unclear
High performers shift into reaction and short-term work
Use this interactive cost calculator to surface signals of execution drag using industry benchmarks for burnout-related turnover and productivity loss.